Bede, Explanatio Apocalypsis, in Latin, cutting from a large decorated manuscript on parchment [France or Low Countries, probably eleventh century] Rectangular fragment from the centre of a double column manuscript with remains of 24 lines in a handsome and skilled Romanesque bookhand with a strong st-ligature, tongued 'e' and a 'z' that descends below the line in angular zigzags, a few contemporary interlinear corrections by a second hand, a single 'Nota Bene' mark touched in red, major sections of text opening with lines of ornamental capitals, bright red rubrics and simple initials, recovered from reuse in a binding and hence with scuffs, folds and small holes, reverse scuffed and stained with sections illegible, 170 by 275mm. This sophisticated explanatio on the Apocalypse, written by the celebrated Anglo-Saxon scholar, Bede (672/3-735), is probably the very earliest of his scriptural commentaries. It was composed between 710 and 716, and was widely popularised throughout Europe by intense monastic study, and now survives in seventy-two recorded manuscripts (M.L.W. Laister, Hand List of Bede Manuscripts , 1943, p. 168).
Bede, Explanatio Apocalypsis, in Latin, cutting from a large decorated manuscript on parchment [France or Low Countries, probably eleventh century] Rectangular fragment from the centre of a double column manuscript with remains of 24 lines in a handsome and skilled Romanesque bookhand with a strong st-ligature, tongued 'e' and a 'z' that descends below the line in angular zigzags, a few contemporary interlinear corrections by a second hand, a single 'Nota Bene' mark touched in red, major sections of text opening with lines of ornamental capitals, bright red rubrics and simple initials, recovered from reuse in a binding and hence with scuffs, folds and small holes, reverse scuffed and stained with sections illegible, 170 by 275mm. This sophisticated explanatio on the Apocalypse, written by the celebrated Anglo-Saxon scholar, Bede (672/3-735), is probably the very earliest of his scriptural commentaries. It was composed between 710 and 716, and was widely popularised throughout Europe by intense monastic study, and now survives in seventy-two recorded manuscripts (M.L.W. Laister, Hand List of Bede Manuscripts , 1943, p. 168).
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